Had Something Super Weird Happen Last Night

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So…last night using OnAir to take a load from KRAP to ME16 about 1500 NM. Flight was great, no issues. Got the order from ATC to descend ultimately to 2700’ from FL 400. All the way through the descent I had no issues until I hit about 5000’ ( when I first noticed the problem). In the 10-15 seconds it took for me to select new altitude of 2700 from around 4800’ and to select my landing speed (in 787x btw) my trim had went from about 38% to 100% and despite having AP and auto throttle on i was losing altitude and speed FAST! Anti ice was on auto as per usual seeing as I had had no issues with it ever before. Seeing my pitch at max nose up, losing altitude and speed, I decided to deploy flap to 20 degrees (side note here, I I think there is a bug with 787x that you lose speed when going over flaps 20 even when at full power! not sure what that’s about) to try and level out trim and try to stop the altitude bleed. after a few seconds, I realized this was not helping so I decided to put max throttle…STILL losing speed and altitude. I then looked on outside of plane and saw ice. This was around midnight I could see there was ice but could not see if it was light or heavy. I then decided to switch anti ice to on. STILL no effect.

No matter what I did I could not regain control of the plane! Usually there is something to be learned from a crash…but in this case I have literally zero f’ing clue what happened to cause all this to transpire.

Back to the max flaps thing. A buddy of mine did not believe me, so he ended doing a full automated approach like I do (I don’t yet have any flight hardware) he too ended up having the issue where AP/AT would maintain speed until he went past flaps 20…Once he hit flaps 25 or 30, it was like the plane is uncapable of maintaining selected speed. Anyone else have this issue?

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Here is a thread link to what seems to be the same issue.

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I have the same problem since the last update. The anti-ice doesn’t work anymore. Even when turning it off (Visual Only) in the settings. The B787 will still freeze up like a popsicle when flying though clouds at colder temperatures. The only workarounds I know are:

  1. While still climbing choose Travel To Cruise in the options. Set anti ice to on again as it will be reset by ‘traveling’. The ice disappears instantly and the AOA goes back to normal.
  2. While still on or going to a lower altitude, change the weather to clear skies and crank up the temperature to let the aircraft warm up. If there no clouds on the rest of the route I change the weather back to Live again.

Maybe somebody knows how the turn off icing effects in another way? Like in the aircraft.cfg or something?

On another note, since the last update I’ve had the best landings since I started playing on aug 24th. It’s like butter now.

edit: edit on #1 instruction

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There is none as yet.
There is one other solution, and I’m not joking, :laughing:If you fly inverted, you will climb like a rocket.

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